Monday 26 December 2005

Boxing Day Snow

What a great day! Heaps of snow last night, and all day today! The view from Cameron's window.









We made our first snowman for the year...on the front lawn of the Contemporary Art Gallery of Berlin! That was fun! A lot of snowball fights!










Today we went in to the city, and looked at some of the tourist sites with Mum and Dad. There was no point in going up the Fernsehnturm, visibility would not have been the best! Instead we wandered around Alexanderplatz, through the markets, past the gallery for a bit of snowman making, and then to the Brandenburg Gate! 















We take a lot of pictures of the snow...just like we took lots of photos of Autumn with the leaves falling on the ground.....it is all such a novelty for us!










A great trick for getting someone covered in snow, is to make a snowball and throw it up into the branches of a tree, and for the snow on the branches to fall on top of the person! This is a good way of getting someone totally covered in snow! this game caused a lot of laughter, and was great fun. 

Mum and Dad are surprised that they are not as cold as they thought they would be....highest temperature was about 0 degrees today!










These photos were taken at about 3.30pm...you can see how dark it gets so early! A bit hard to take a photo when the snow is falling. But The Gate looked gorgeous with the lighting and the tree close by. Our photos do not do it justice! Close by was a large Jewish Candelabra, and people beneath it, singing and dancing Jewish songs for Hanukkah.













Mum and Dad can't get used to it getting so dark by 4.30pm. It doesn't do the jet lag much good, your body thinks it is much later than it is. We totally understand, as we arrived in January 2005, and had the same trouble. But to their credit, Mum and Dad seem to have gotten over their jet lag well...and not getting up at 3am ready for the day!







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